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A protester holds up sign that reads Pahlavi Street in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution that toppled the last Iranian monarchy in Feb, 1979. The majority of Iranians have been supporting the Islamic Republic despite shot-comings and ups and downs.

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An Iranian protestor holds the sign of Pahlavi Street now known as Valiasr Street of Tehran, adding the text toppled under it after the regime changed during the revolution of 1979. The street built by Reza Shah is the longest in the Middle East,

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A photograph in STERN magazine; Ayatollah Khomeini is being cheered and crowded as he returns to Tehran from exile on Feb,1 1979. A moment earlier, a supporter had, in the exuberance of the moment, knocked the turban off his head.

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First elected Iranian President Abolhasan Banisadr siiting by famous Italian reporter Oriana Fallaci in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution. Banisadr soon fell out with Khomeini and disappointed his supporters by fleeing to France on 28 July 1981.

Iranian revolution key political figues Ayatollah Taleghani, Ayatollah Beheshti, Hojjatoleslam Rafsanjani, and Abolhasan Banisadr taking a souvenir photo while Shah's statue is being tore down in the background in a square in Tehran, 1979.

Iranian Women in black chadors packed in the trunk of a car atTehran's Behesht Zahra cemetery in September, 1979, at the funeral of Ayatollah Taleghani: an Iranian theologian, humanist, reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shia cleric of Iran.

First Friday Prayer after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 took place at a football field in Tehran University. Ayatollah Taleghani leaded the sermon on Aug, 16, 1978. Sadeq Ghotbzadeh, Ebrahim Yazdi, Hasem Seydjavadian, Ahmad Sadr were praying behind him.

Left to right: Iranian political figures Abolhassan Banisadr, Mehdi Bazargan and Ruhollah Khomeini in early 1979. Bazargan was the interim Prime Minister after the Iranian Revolution. Banisadr became the first elected President of the Islamic Republic.

Yasser Arafat visited Tehran in 1979 after the revolution. He was welcomed by top Iranian authorities such as Ebrahim Yazdi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Ahmad Khomeini. Israel embassy was closed and Palestine Embassy was inaugurated.

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US Hostage Crisis : Protests in support and against hostage taking of US diplomats in Tehran.The 600 plus attendees are fairly evenly split between MCOB supporters, and anti-Iranian protestors. November 16, 1979

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Demonstrations during the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Protesters hold up posters of Imam Khomeini, Dr. Mosaddegh and Takhti. The upcoming conservative regime however suppressed different views and Mosaddegh and his ideas were maltreated.

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First squadron of Iranian Pilots of F14 tomcats of Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force after the Iranian Revolution at Shiraz Air Base in Sep, 1979. In the 1970s, IIAF was the only military force other than the US Navy, to be equipped with the F-14 Tomcat.

Soldiers during a Military Curfew in Tehran, look on as an Iranian Girl passes by in high heels. Stones on the ground are signs of possible clashes between demonstrators and the army. Such confrontations sometimes became bloody with heavy death tolls.

Recreation of Ayatollah Taleghani's Death a key revolutionary cleric On September 10, 1979 in his home in tehran. Taleghani was a moderate cleric, a member of the Freedom Movement who spoke the language of people on the street and opposed extremism.

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People from all walks of life march during the Iranian Revolution of 1979. At the time, wearing Islamic hijab was not compulsory, however extremists took power & concept of Enforced Hijab surfaced, as a result; continous use of force against women.